The cake tree in the ruins


Akiyuki Nosaka ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Bok Engelsk 2018 · Fiction.
Originaltittel
[ Sensō dōwashū. .] English
Medvirkende
Omfang
157 pages ;
Opplysninger
"The first seven stories in this volume were first published by Pushkin Press in 2015 as The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine"--Title page verso.. - "'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War.They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment."--
Emner
Sjanger
Fiction. : (OCoLC)fst01423787. - Historical fiction. : (OCoLC)fst01726640. - Short stories. : (OCoLC)fst01726740
Geografisk emneord
Japan. : (OCoLC)fst01204082
Dewey
ISBN
9781782274186

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